Last November’s vote to merge the Borough and the Township was the culmination of a decades-long political battle that has seen consolidation appear on the ballots four times in the last 58 years.
The Open Public Meetings Act applies to meetings of the Transition Task Force, but not its subcommittees, TTF attorney William John Kearns Jr. said at the Wednesday night meeting of the governing body.
The ban on freshman involvement in Greek life, which will take effect on Sept. 1, will not allow upperclassmen to solicit freshmen to join fraternities or sororities electronically, President Shirley Tilghman clarified in an announcement Tuesday morning. The University announced that Tilghman had approved the recommendations of the Committee on Freshman Rush Policy, which was tasked by Tilghman with determining the specifics of the ban. The Committee released its report outlining its recommendations on March 25.
New research in the molecular biology department is calling for closer scrutiny of the popular antidepressant sertraline, commonly known as Zoloft. Researchers in the lab of Ethan Perlstein, an associate research scholar at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, shows that Zoloft can affect yeast cells in unexpected ways.
Four university professors were elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a prestigious group of scholars in science, engineering and medicine that advises the nation, the NAS announced Tuesday.Physics professor William Bialek, chemical and biological engineering professor Pablo Debenedetti, chemistry professor John Groves and physics professor Nai Phuan Ong were elected to the Academy.
In addition to the police force, the pending consolidation of Princeton Borough and Township means future changes for local businesses, as the new government seeks to balance the needs of the business-heavy downtown area in the Borough with less concentrated business areas of the Township.
Last spring, Brianna Leary ’13 and the rest of the Class of 2013 had to decide where they would eat their meals for the upcoming year. Leary could join an eating club, remain in the residential colleges or go independent.But for her, the decision was complicated by the fact that she would be studying at the Royal College of Music in London for the fall semester of her junior year. Leary ultimately chose to draw into Whitman College because it didn’t “make sense” to pay eating club fees for just one semester.
Assistant Borough Attorney Henry Chou turned down the idea that the Borough Council’s right-of-way ordinance could affect the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood plan, at the Council meeting Tuesday night.The right-of-way ordinance gives the Borough the ability to maintain the Dinky train tracks for future train use. Chou said the move to preserve the right-of-way of the tracks would not hold much meaning in light of the University’s plans for moving forward with the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, according to Planet Princeton. Part of the neighborhood plan would involve moving the Dinky 460 feet south.
Participants in Monday afternoon’s faculty meeting discussed and approved undergraduate curriculum changes in the Wilson School and the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Economics, History, Philosophy, Politics and Psychology.
The police departments in the Borough and Township are pushing back against plans to reduce the size of their combined force as a result of the merger between the municipalities to take place next January.
President Shirley Tilghman has endorsed the recommendations made by the Committee on Freshmen Rush Policy, the University announced Tuesday morning. Accordingly, the recommendations by the committee — the suspension of any freshman who affiliates with a fraternity or sorority or of any sophomore, junior or senior who conducts a form of freshman rush — will be implemented effective Sept. 1.
Toni Morrison, a professor of humanities at the University for 17 years, received a 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama last Thursday. This is the highest honor that a United States civilian can receive.
When Mick Hagen was a freshman at the University six years ago, he was a member of BodyHype dance company, Business Today and the USG and played club basketball.In many ways, he was the typical involved college student. Then suddenly, just one year into his college career, he left to pursue his startup, Zinch.com.
The end of selective admission at the Wilson School raises questions as to what students who fail to get accepted to the School ultimately study and how the reforms will affect the departments which cater to similar intellectual interests, such as politics, economics and history.
Though the sociology department saw a 47 percent drop in the number of sophomore sign-ins this year, departmental representative Paul Willis said he was not concerned by the decrease. After the April 24 deadline for sophomore sign-ins, 28 members of the Class of 2014 had signed into the department, compared to the 53 students in the Class of 2013 and the 62 students in the Class of 2012 who signed in.
African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 will head to trial in New York today after an arrest in October for an act of planned civil disobedience in front of a Harlem police station. West will be joined in the courtroom by 21 other protestors with whom West was arrested at the time.
One of the many challenges presented by consolidation was which form of government the joint municipality should choose. In February 2011, the Municipal Consolidation Subcommittee of the Transition Task Force — the entity responsible for ensuring that the consolidation of the two municipalities occurs smoothly — unanimously recommended that the joint Princeton municipality adopt the borough government structure.
Nathaniel Fleming ’12 has been selected as this year’s valedictorian and Liz Butterworth ’12 will serve as Latin salutatorian, the University announced at Monday’s faculty meeting following the faculty’s approval of the students’ nominations by the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing.
Nine undergraduates have been awarded the 2012 Spirit of Princeton Award, given annually to undergraduates whose positive contributions to the University community may have previously gone unrecognized. The award is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.
At its meeting on Sunday night, the USG discussed its progress on five projects that members said would improve academic feedback at the University. This endeavor has been collectively dubbed the “Improving Academic Feedback Project.”
